Records and registration forms for 'yue'

[Michael Everson]

I approve. 

On 24 Sep 2014, at 19:28, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:

> Below are proposed records and registration forms to add the Description
> field "Cantonese" to the existing primary and extended language subtag
> records for 'yue', which per ISO 639-3 currently have the single
> description "Yue Chinese".
> 
> My intent is to help others avoid the embarrassing mistake I made this
> week, claiming that Cantonese and Yue were different.
> 
> The field "Any other relevant information" in the registration forms is
> an attempt to summarize the relationship between the Yue branch and the
> Cantonese dialect, and clarify that the meaning of the subtags has not
> changed. If anyone has concerns about this, and thinks this proposal
> might cause the subtags to be misused or misunderstood, we can discuss
> adding "Includes Cantonese" as a comment instead of adding a new
> Description field.
> 
> ---
> 
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
> File-Date: 2014-10-09
> %%
> Type: language
> Subtag: yue
> Description: Yue Chinese
> Description: Cantonese
> Added: 2009-07-29
> Macrolanguage: zh
> %%
> 
> ---
> 
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
> 
> 1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
> 2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org
> 
> 3. Record Requested:
> 
> Type: language
> Subtag: yue
> Description: Yue Chinese
> Description: Cantonese
> Macrolanguage: zh
> %%
> 
> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
> 
> 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
> 
> 6. Any other relevant information:
> 
> This registration adds the additional Description field "Cantonese" to
> the existing primary language subtag 'yue'. Cantonese is the prestige
> dialect of Yue, spoken in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macao. This subtag
> continues to represent all dialects within the Yue branch.
> 
> ---
> 
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
> File-Date: 2014-10-09
> %%
> Type: extlang
> Subtag: yue
> Description: Yue Chinese
> Description: Cantonese
> Added: 2009-07-29
> Preferred-Value: yue
> Prefix: zh
> Macrolanguage: zh
> %%
> 
> ---
> 
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
> 
> 1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
> 2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org
> 
> 3. Record Requested:
> 
> Type: extlang
> Subtag: yue
> Description: Yue Chinese
> Description: Cantonese
> Preferred-Value: yue
> Prefix: zh
> Macrolanguage: zh
> 
> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
> 
> 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
> 
> 6. Any other relevant information:
> 
> This registration adds the additional Description field "Cantonese" to
> the existing extended language subtag 'yue'. Cantonese is the prestige
> dialect of Yue, spoken in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macao. This subtag
> continues to represent all dialects within the Yue branch.
> 
> 
> --
> Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA
> http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell
> 
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